Gholam Rasool and Mohammad Aref

The UN Mine Information Network estimates that after 30 years of conflict in Afghanistan, approximately 62 people are killed or injured by land mines each month in the country. These portraits of survivors of mines were taken in December 2010, in Herat, Afghanistan.

Wheelchair-bound Gholam Rasool, 30, lost his feet three years ago after stepping on a land mine. Mohammad Aref, 35, stands behind him. Aref lost a leg nine years ago.
(Majid Saeedi / Getty Images)
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Nader Haidari

Nader Haidari, 37, lost his feet seven years ago after stepping on a mine.